Curious City

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Welcome to Curious City, the podcast from Glasgow Life Museums. In each episode, we travel across Glasgow discovering locations around the city and objects from our collections that link in surprising ways - uncovering the stories that surround us.

  1. Episode 20 - Museum Tours

    19/11/2024

    Episode 20 - Museum Tours

    What secrets are revealed on a museum tour, how do you join one and why do people give their free time to be a guide? We head over to the Burrell Collection to find out.

    18 min
  2. Episode 19 - A Day at Kelvin Hall

    05/11/2024

    Episode 19 - A Day at Kelvin Hall

    In this episode Jade Graham, programme manager at Kelvin Hall takes us on a personal tour and we meet tour guides, curators and geologists along the way.

    20 min
  3. Episode 18 - Ghosts of Glasgow

    22/10/2024

    Episode 18 - Ghosts of Glasgow

    Scary paintings, ghost signs and ghost stories from Kelvingrove

    26 min
  4. Episode 17 - Dark

    08/10/2024

    Episode 17 - Dark

    Welcome to Curious City. In this episode, fashion historian Mairi MacKenzie joins David Scott to discover how the dark, and darkness, has influenced the development of the city.

    28 min
  5. Episode 16 - Light

    24/09/2024

    Episode 16 - Light

    Welcome to Curious City. In this episode, history enthusiast April Hamilton joins David Scott for a fascinating look into the impact light has on life and the city, throughout time and on our museum objects.

    29 min
  6. Episode 15 - Degas at Burrell - Part 2

    10/09/2024

    Episode 15 - Degas at Burrell - Part 2

    In this episode of Curious City, as part of the Discovering Degas exhibition at the Burrell Collection, we return to the museum to hear how the exhibition has been received and take a look at what Degas' subjects mean in a 21st Century context.   Host Michael MacKinnon is joined by the guest, and exhibition co-curator Pippa Stephenson-Sit.

    24 min
  7. Episode 14 - Television

    27/08/2024

    Episode 14 - Television

    Welcome to Curious City. In this episode journalist and broadcaster Rona Dougall invites us into her STV studio and talks us through life on the set. Plus, we visit Kelvin Hall to discover an enormous new tv studio and head over to the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in Nitshill to see an early TV set.

    26 min
  8. Episode 13 - Film City

    13/08/2024

    Episode 13 - Film City

    Welcome to Curious City. In this episode film critic Alistair Harkness is our guide to Glasgow on film, we explore the city's lost cinemas with Norrie Wilson,  and meet artist Thomas McGoran, who takes us back to cinema's golden era.

    26 min
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Welcome to Curious City, the podcast from Glasgow Life Museums. In each episode, we travel across Glasgow discovering locations around the city and objects from our collections that link in surprising ways - uncovering the stories that surround us.

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    Glasgow Life Museums
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  • Episodes
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